Albuquerque Center for Peace and Justice - Newsletter -- ACP&J Noticias

Albuquerque Center for Peace and Justice 202 Harvard SE Albuquerque, NM 87106 505-268-9557		Updated: 31 October 2009
Newsletter November 2009

November 2009
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ACP&J Noticias

Annual Yard Sale Gigantic Thank You!
Once again P&J's yard sale was a successful fundraiser, thanks to your volunteering, your donations, and your energy! Also, big thanks and rounds of applause for the sale coordinators Hildegard Adams, Donna Detweiler, Ann Harrison, Judith Kidd, Mary Nakigan & Bob Press. The amount raised, around $2222, will help continue work at this communal space.

Central America Solidarity Network
invites you to join us in two projects…
We will be working with the Catholic Worker House Casa de las Comunidades in its efforts to support immigrants here in Albuquerque. We are asking you to help supply them with soap, detergent, paper towels, toilet paper, disposable paper plates and cups (not Styrofoam please!), and/or $25 gift cards to Smith's or Albertsons. They also need gently used children's and men's clothing, new socks and underwear.

We're also going to the Mexican/American border at Agua Prieta, MX / Douglas, AZ to work with the Migrant Resource Center in December. This experience gives people the opportunity to put many faces and names on the issue of immigration. We'll report back on what we learn from them. The MCR, is in need of clothing, socks, jackets, food, medical supplies, hygiene products, and money.

We'll be collecting all of these things at the Peace Center and at First Unitarian Church during the month of November.

In solidarity…¡muchas gracias!

P&J's Art Project:
Becoming, un-becoming and Beyond
Opening Friday, November 13, 4 - 8pm
(Please see November Calendar of Events.)

Series of nine contemporary tapestry weavings, by Hilary Heyl. Collectively, they comprise meditations on unconventional nuances of how pieces of our lives, such as pursuits, relationships or major decisions take form, develop, devolve and ultimately synthesize into a greater whole. The show will hang through December 17.

Newlywed Couple Arrested on
Free Speech Honeymoon
Chelsea Collonge (of Trinity Nuclear Abolitionists) and Marcus Page (CC member of ACP&J) spoke their final vows of marriage in a Catholic Church on Sunday, October 4th, then were arrested less than 24 hours later in Sunnyvale, CA, for trying to communicate their concerns to Lockheed-Martin employees.

Some of Chelsea's family has worked for Lockheed-Martin in past decades, and the newlyweds consider all employees to be their "family" in the larger sense. Now that Chelsea & Marcus are starting a family through a Catholic Worker marriage, they want to make sure that Lockheed-Martin and the U.S. government STOP their domination of outer space and the whole planet.

Along with Fr. Louis Vitale, ofm, the happily married couple spent an hour in jail and have an arraignment on Nov. 16. The three were able to successfully distribute about 30 fliers to employees before negotiations with police led to the arrest of Chelsea & Marcus.

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